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“LAROR" GOVERNMENT SETS UP “vessel WEST (NDIAN SECRET FASCIST STATE COUNCIL” ......""° "REVOLT IVE Try to ‘Inflame GUAYAQUIL, Equador (By Mail) | WASHINGTON, D —Harry De La Vergne Tompkins, | unemployment is grow eens, 5 % D Te | ; sti «oe | American financial dictator, was | dustries is proved by the YS U; 110n PB TAS to be mie . a Te Meet Hoover Drive on British Trade—Sneaks Enemies of csorcrted by the supreme court in | DUTCH FRIGHT el ey ches Aue } a rot : : White Miners Workers into Power Literally by Back Door—Uses \his arrogant and dictatorial actions, Association for freight car }f +} C t i t U. Against Negro “Economic” Fascist Demagogy |by a decision just handed down. | for the weck ended Nove ; to the apt ais nion eo ae i | “Tompkins was fined three months (ypace > 6 Tg). There has been a decr of 72 Cpalies (By a Worker Correspondent} LONDON, Dec. 4.—The swift |archo-syndicalists, or old 1. W. W. | Salary for negligence and bullying Curacao Republic I: cars under thi ( r Correspondent) i Yman| y *OORHIS, W. Va. ( ) transformation of MacDonald’s gov- | stuff) that in the “modern” state, | °f government officials. | Negro Demand : BI K, N. D., ( from the Inter at Harvester 0's Me ee “West in at ernment into fascism thinly dis-|nameky, the imperialist state, the | The case went to the supreme | The report saic th n 2 aA hink n|Co.) as chai f Farm Ecler ae 2 a z guised as a “Council of State” to| “dominating issues are economic” court, and the judges showed their) AMSTERD. Dec. 4.—Gone are commodities produced d ; anc| Boards Gegee Orerouns Tae viet i e meet the economic emergency ag- and “scientific” and hence a parlia- | Tespect for American imperialism | the days when the little-noticed but was not restricted to e 1- } head of the Inte ane an Reet ae nia gravated by American aggressive-|ment of “politicians” is helpless to | by cuting out the mild punishment | industrious Dutch imperialists can tomobiles. “All comm Wy Le ; wipe should In ae ‘and i eid Teanas ness in the struggle for markets for | solve them, the need being for “sci- | f, the imperialist boss. exploit tens of millions of colonial | off.” “« weat d for the farmers le AMIR Loa epee ; relief of United States business de- pression, is remarked in the plans} MacDonald announces after his first interview. with wholly unknown capitalists in a secret meeting at even going to the length of having them enter the government house | entific” minds and so on. The British workers, however, who have not been stewed in the capitalist ideas of the American I. | W. W. with its “economic” humbug, | Tompkins is superintendent of banking, and was appointed by the Equadorian government under the Kemmerer plan. The Kemmerer plan is a financial dictatorship of insistent, when the operators are economic depression behind tall talk |really hit where it hurts. | by the contract of Illinois district slaves without facing a revolt, as {shown not only by the recent and almost continuous rebellion in In- donesia since 1926, but in the Ameri- can lake known as the Carribean been overtaken unaware, received There was also a drop of freight cars loaded under the of last week. The figures on freight car ings indicate a drop in inst the ur by t Letiy to inflame hatred ag mably hired Negroes white miners alike during the strike. All were liv’ in the same camp then. But now, since the fakers of the U. M. W. A. helped to break the strike, New England Fuel Co. portation Co. as these and w ows how Union hip of the ‘armers. the 10 Downing St. will not be swindled into thinking | Equador by Wall Street. Under this |sea in the West Indies. tion in industry of 10 t l I n relies upon !: all the Negro miners to Distaring’ altpiitiy, from, Houvers |that the British Empire has become | Plan Tompkins, as representative of | In May, the Dutch West Indian der last year. ; ; of or. | & moving vk te Negro m . ee aay ir nngrceticing “evolutionary” because it has taken | American bankers, is the virtual | colony on the Island of Curacao was eee chen. The- wav Bustle quarter alee reed st ene who wer,|wp the policy as expressed by the | Political dictator. | the scene of unexpected revolt, when | 7 patayitle Pickets Ghie eng ital s that the union fol:|, ee here “Hendae Smee : invitad to form the Economic Con- capitalists he Se) “The Daily News,” | baton bela sce ce Gate = . z ret s 3 | nothing r ti , otherwise no oon ‘will ii hell’s ‘fi a aroha ference at Weuhineton, Macdonald, |i saying that “an economic general| ]linois Miners Strike island rose in rebellion, seized the | Keeps Mill Clesed rere lortheoming. ‘The (t24 zey will is Ue ras being a bit chary perhaps of what |Staff is an inevitable coroMary of | « A [a overne fe sev cotter she gover | = and 1 organizations, such as the | tre cou PCr tre National Miners” Byun. workers esa vaesn was |2” industrialized community.” — ‘in Winter for Results nor, anxious to get rid of them, to} (Continued from Page One ie eemers Walon: ecarciledeneg (ee building of the National Min being done if they knew the most | . Wille MacDonald’s new duplicate —— sign orders to the captain of the peeled “Aneel committe ) ang, credits exter by. finanee say ae s Tahorshatinie capitalists were in con- |°f Hoover’s fascist council is busy (Continued from Page One) American _ stea _ Maracaibo to ie Oe ace a Brom othhe ser capital _ At Scotts Run, W. Va., the mine sultation with him on how to speed |P'Yie to outdo Hoover on ration- the snow flies, when the furnaces ‘tansport them to Venezuela in an | a sain) pirelings—did not com| It nOren going tthe ee up with more intense rationaliza- | @lizing the labor process, the Fed-/are blazing, when the demand for atempt to overthrow the Tascist 49-1 tte lurid and vicious phrase is below and saying: If you don’t ven tion, MacDonald is keeping the [eration of British Industries has | Illinois coal in the big industrial pe a their “country, ““ president’ | ite characteristic of 1s E R ‘ toy work with ie Nee on bi names of his council a dark secret, |tlled British business men to copy |centers around Lake Michigan grow | Gomes. radical-baiting documents calculated | Herald, « the them out and we won't hire any ’ | American methods of disguising The Dutch governor, who had en ha more. id nothing, because Centers Tron Strike OY the U. MW. A. bas with the {control as the Venezuelans aid last | mittee were WASHINGTON, D. C., Dee, 4.— not be go to the Negro | | operators, the operators are allowed | May. and were left com : Oil production continues to go down. miners a “I must chase you In preparation for the National! READING, Pa., Dec. 4.—The | to at whee, ana tan cotati tiley POSES IA for sae ye n - oa, The daily Je oer ae oN dens the ma ernihass wore ¥ i » National Textile} Trade Union Unity League has | J ‘anid i. Toi | jon te ? a : has eased 67, barrels daily | work with you. ecause the work- eee ee aiken ealilea bi H hi ee a ee | Reopen Marine Toilers |, protest ue ptember, according to the ers would all be members of one Workers’ Union mass rallies will be held in all textile centers. The N. T, W. U. has arranged a special tour for Fred Beal, Gasto- p x x : the h ie re reve nia strike leader, who is now out |were driven back to work thru the| by the wasting of part of their! were again released, after Morgan cant tk det in 1927, on bail. This tour will take him | agency of the “socialists” allied with | wages, but actually building up aj and Brown had been sentenced to! tion from the s f to faa GF through most of the New England | the iron bosses, and the misleaders | fund to be used against them. Fish- | 20 days and $10 fines. ihe miicowll d mill towns, where Beal is well known to the textile workers. Beal will hold meetings and do organizational issued leaflets exposing the reac- tionary character of the “socialist party” to the workers of the Read- the miners’ wages and pay this money over to the rotten Fishwick P ‘ or Lewis officialdom in the U. M. ing Irow Mills, where 1,000 strikers | w, 4,, injuring the miners not only of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Virtual acceptance of the com- wick’s defense against charge of stealing something over Lewis’ | Office in New Orleans. (Continued from Page One) The greatest anxiety over the or- ganization work of the league was further exploitatia Conerete proof tha issued | Wer press all ‘attempts at or on the part of the te epartment of Commerce. union—the National Miners’ Union. AS PART OF THE PARTY RECRUTING and DAILY WORKER BUILDING DRIVE ert lof “advancing prosperity.” In an| The miners are fighting for real | harsh criticism, and as the Curacao | i) oeecials who ar! Batali h taking the Negroes ei ee ee appeal the Federation says: _ jand fundamental demands of their Ns Negr » colonial VOTES ee ay ae ve Hany bt , cri for itself by the s would do them no buildings. | “Although the United States is|own this time. The greatest prob- | 0Vevioyed as long as the revolt |) 0 to the Hoove found capitalism becomes only good—these miners are organized ; stil feeling the effects of a finan-|lem in Ilinois is unemployment. #sted, shouting out “Long live | oo toment are cit ; t : 1 State bsky and unstable a the MM IF But what they are to do can |cja] shock as great as that sustained | The introduction of coal loading and | the Independent Republic — of 6a merle seh newer ia Next day the foremen aallaaaaan scarcely long remain a secret. Mac-|by any country in the present cen- cutting machines and the brutal racao,” as they saw their oppres ows by the cores. “Gale | Aad Neveo sninunia eat change ya Donald calls these mysterious bosses \tury, no news except of an optimistic | speed-up has displaced about half | S°°S herded about at the end of guns fae (e the fact that the 5 GYrana q Gece ae HRS apie the his “general staff,” claiming that | character now appears from New lof the more than 90,000 men for- | PY elan workers, the | oo° of the “loyal commit 1 white miners, enecialy. vie tenia they are from “all political parties” | ygrk.” Then the warning to look | merly in mines of this district. The | Dutch impe got a fright and} of one of two striker atte On ouch G6u eRe eee (barring, of course, the only work- | ow for American trade rivalry: | miners who strike next week de- | Sent three cruisers to Curacao to| posent saliel ; } ate eae aa ee oe . ae ing class party, the Communists). | “We are told new American produc- |mand direct aid for these starving {Stamp out the sentiment for an in-) yoiiey to con! ae pee me Wage ; uA ss a an That the function of government is |tian records will be reached next | unemployed, in the form of insur. |ePendent Republic: of Curacao. al ; : ; See ee i al ie ee to be practically taken over by this | spring, and that if any trades are to/ance at the rate of $35 a week, to| Repressive measures have been taten ae inet nothing about tose poate fascist council, is inescapably the /be hit it will be those in which |he provided by the employers and |taken, but, of course, the memory conditions in the 1 iron Po-| Outside the mine = Negro Sigmm result, and propaganda as in the| American supplies are taken from ithe state. They also demand that of the Negro workers and their yous, Many of th ennavislasked) the foreman tote ich ante United States is already being car-|Great Britain and other overseas |thousands of them be put to work hopes, still linger. Hence Holland ved as low & wacko flak lt oes lad ck - i ir sai ried on to justify the pushing aside | countries.” land the lot of the miner on the |is giving “special attention” to the stretch-out was extended to a ie Gee ones Uva give you a job bac Abe of parliament as the center of gov-| “We advertise the number of our| machines be made easier, by hiring | West Indies, is sending a guaran- mym point. The mill was rur st ; woaegera Patatic ncaa FERRE wont 8 ork with Meni ernment, and lodging all power in @/ unemployed and draw dismal de- bigger crews, and by the system of |teed imperialist bloodhound, named on two 11-hour shifts d Me te ss mide aa ee caae » Ao o Wie ahite fascist “economic council” which |dyctions from their total,” the Fed-| 15-minute rest periods in every Major Van Slobbe to Curacao. He new three 8-hour shift \ : RO Sr SHE BEG UU CE AG: URNS 7 eee (ay i itce ba the bosses can use more directly in| eration says, contrasting English hour, also the six-hour day and five- is ordered to reorganize the police | calculated to still further incr E and Iron Police who | ep miners) pad not ng to do w t attacking labor. customs to*those of America, where {day week, and abolition of the | force, which is now composed partly the stretch-out, dispose of some of 5 ee act ee Age dhs Acdaalegtcy ie The noisy reactionary demagog, the number of unemployed is kept |speed-up. These demands flatly re- |of native Negroes, whom Holland | the workers and run the mill 24 py s).q0! 2 1 Ee aeee ef F Why do bosses do this? _ Be- General Smuts, for example, is|secret and the unemployed them- | verse the tendency of the mine own- | thinks are not to be trusted. hours ) allowing no” rho cern eneetn yOr (chee 200 Negro and white miners | spreading propaganda (which inci-| selves let starve to death without | ers now, to speed the miners, hire| It is also necessary for Curacao | lunch the 8-h ae in a wee give a epee the N ae U. and they dentally sounds much like the an-|so much “advertising.” \smaller crews, get from them the jand the neighboring island of Aruba, | shifts. ; auras of aie oe able to fight in a body for same or more production and by | to serve as a base for British naval, The sham of civil liberties vf citi: 04) 2 aa rhb: ‘ Ae this see ete Me es Pls Si Bee: H |all sorts of tricks lengthen the work |schemes against United States im-’ z illustrated when the mill | °°) : CLits GEL AGE Ieee Send Leane Te te TEXTILE TOILERS 7 U U L FIGHT § \ day. |perialism, since Holland and Eng- | st per immediat fired th I : i sa an é F goes around t ving to int ane Ng dene ba | The Check-off Swindle. |land are very much united in the | Mill Commiitee, Laie ; oe Mil eter) bite bend ead and whites {Wie Sniteve cedintid that the Royal Dutch Shell oil holdings in the Leaksville woolen n vk a y hits ae Sealnnt Nepiiesy L | DIN EL T union seale of wages be paid, and | all Central America, Venezuelan |came to him to prot t the |" a ton ae Beane the bosses _know that | \that the ignoble form of swindling | oil is refined in — oe is i2 pieced ay € aon Detsn d annen! comes Ga ae he on 4 nee » and aap Bedi known as the “check-off” be stopped. | S*Tategic location and the new gov- | th geking ait thee unite in ee 5 ae es The miners hate the U. M. W. A., a, is a see that fe Negro Sada ae a ae 5 SOR aera RT Hee Uni i ee cone ne ‘ ; F worl i Dutch can ji s is supposedly i : one against the other as they ha’ Beal to Tour Many Mill) Expdses Betrayal of |and would never support it, But |Worsers fo Moe Be om Dutch | workers who forme OIL PRODUCTION DOWN. | done in past strikes. They would . my $28,000 from the Illinois U. M. W.! displayed here, not only by the s for better conditions, and ct Ame sult of Beal’s tour ani e other | whic e i iron it aside to fight the National Miners’ | rh : Anat " f work of the N. T. W. U. locals in|have been driven back to work. For|ynion with aeen one se al cys eer : ; ae We Now Announce the Special those parts, it is expected that most | eight eet eine ba The miners demand no diserimina-| partment of Justice’ ‘Ehe ere te heal tthe f Sr EnS of the New England textile centers | workers, | Saving tong poms our, {ti against young workers or Ne-| Workers Southern Conference, sched-| morring were of n n their condi- Sixth . will have delegates at the conven-| wages of 30 to eents an hour, gro workers, and the same pay for| uled for New Orleans Jan. 18 and|were given to all tl ‘i 5 Balla tion when it opens in Paterson on) December 21. Beal Tour Itinerary. Saturday, November 30, 12 noon, Blumenthal Weaver’s Club, St. George’s Hall, Bridgeport, Conn. Sunday, December 1, I. L. D. Con- ference, Boston, Mass., 10 a. m., Chelsea, Mass., 8 p. m. Wednesday, December 4, Water- bury, Conn. Thursday, December 5, Hartford, | Conn. Friday, December 6, New Haven Conn. |tem, turned down the advice of the under the “Bedeaux” speed-up S¥S-|voung workers as for adults, and “socialist” politicians, Mayor Stump and Councilman George, that they return to work under the old condi- tions, until the matter was “ar- bitrated.” |the support of all militant workers In order to force the strikers to|everywhere. The; have been as- return, Mayor Stump talked to the| sured by representatives of the In- strikers about “the approach of ternational Labor Defense that they this exceedingly dangerous industry. Help Through W. I. R. and 1. L. D. The miners demand, and expect, Christmas, the coming severe win-/ will be given legal aid when they | ter, and the poverty of the strikers,” | are arrested for mass picketing, and | and pleaded with the workers to for marching in thousands from mine “consider the interests of the city’s| to mine to call out those who were! not represented at the Zeigler con- | business,” telling them that they they demand safety provisions in| 19, is the third regional conference: leading to a Great Lakes Confer- cece, and then a national convention to build an industrial union for the | whole marine industr: The em-| ployers are bitterly exploiting sev- eral thousand marine workers in New Orlecns, paying as low as 30 cents an hour on the docks, and will take every possible means to pre vent these Negro and white workers from organizing Federal Dicks Called In. Mayor Walmsley and Commander Bodenhamer of the American Legion | ers, published the strikers and their Anniversary Edition of the Daily Worker (To Be Issued in January) Saturday, December 7, Bridge-|had no other course but to return| vention. They have been assured! toasted each other at a banquet Units, Sections, Districts of port, Conn. | to work. " ___ |by the Workers’ International Re-| Tuesday and made a promise of . * Sunday, December 8, Allentown,| In commenting on the situation, |lief that it will immediately start | united warfare against workers or- the Communist Party of United Pa., 2 p. m. Heins of the State Department of/a campaign thrcughout the world | ganizations, and to “jail all Commu-| Pa Fe Monday, December 9, Astoria,| Labor stated, “We had begun to/to secure food and clothing for the | nists.” District Attorney Eugene | states; A Il Sympathetic Organ- Gen fear that conditions would become | strikers. The working class, operat- | Stanley and all Iccal departments of | a Z Tuesday, December 10, Nashua, |serious here.” _.. |ing through these organizations is | justice agents then went into con- iZations; All Party Members and N. H. Despite their diverse nationalities, | their hope of winning this strike. ference to try and connect Morgan c . 8, Wednesday, December 11, Man-|the men displayed great solidarity |The International Labor Defense is | and the others with the bombings i Sympathizers Are Requested to y chester, N. H. \in their strike, whigh started Nov. |located at 80 East 11th St., New| the New Orleans street car str eS Thursday, December 12, Dover, 14. a ‘ lYork City, and the Workers’ Inter- | Then Assistant District Attor Insert Greetings in This Special N. H. | The Trade Union Unity League | national Relief is at 949 Broadway.| Warren 0. Coleman, and Poli i Friday, December 13, New York,|has called on the workers to organ- | Superintendent Theodore Ray, whose DRT ES EES ANNIVERSARY EDITION I. L. D. banquet. ize for the struggle against speed- | |'son scabbed in the street car strike, WEGE jt up and for organization into the Hoover’s P rosperity Saturday, December 14, Provi- , , ; went into a huddle Wednesday with i 1, Congratulating the workers of the Soviet Union on dence, R. I. Metal Trades Workers’ Industrial e “Li |the commission council, to devise the door—at Workers toe auctken GF Ue Pise Your Plan and aang Gk Sunday, December 15, Pawtucket, | League. A mass meeting to initiate Means Bread-Lines | further ways and means of prevent- New Masses, cpeaGon: ip eal eas by ANG OrCHUB HE Co | R11 For U. S. Workers an organization campaign among | ing organization of marine workers Monday, December 16, Woo-|the steel and textile workers of | a ate Firmly resolving to mobilize the masses of workers socket, R. I. Reading will be called for the near’ CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—The number rush of workers fo. even part-time to defend the Soviet Union. Tuesday, December 17, Holyoke, future by the local Trade Union | of unemployed workers who applied jobs, %. Andl'th fat é Mass. Unity League. ‘for jobs advertised by the post | eae ee) WE MUST BE iN gE 3. And to fight the war danger. j Wednesday, December 16, Law- gma! joffice to truck Christmas mail was’ ATLANTA, Ga.,’ Dec. Hun- w or ‘4. And to fight social reformism. | rence, Mass. i ,|80 large that the postal authorities dreds of workers filled the jails to! e e oe te of ‘* Thursday, December 19, Philadel- CHI A 0 NEEDLE had to call a squad of police to han- capacity when zero weather forced a Mass Distr: bution 5. And to fight the speed-up and wage cuts. phia, Pa. | idle the masses. the jobless wage-slaves to seek % 6. And to build the Party into a mass Party, and the Friday, December 20, Paterson, ( “Times must be hard,” said one shelter. The police cannot find of this pamphlet as an organ art of the Daily Worker into a mass organ to give adequate N. J. . PICKETS JA ILED éf the officials, commenting on the | room for the shelterless unemployed Party Recruiting and Daily Worker | leadership to the workers in the coming struggle. I. L. D. IN GRAND RAPIDS. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Dec. 4. —Grand Rapids workers will hold a second International Labor De- fense conference, on Sunday, Dec. 15, following the first conference held on November 14. Support for the Gastonia Defense Drive was pledged. CHICAGO, Ill, Dee. 4—Two members of the Needle Trades Workers’ Industrial Union were ar- rested Tuesday in front of the Value Hat Co. The union is continuing vigorous struggle against all mil- linery firms which locked out their workers for their fight for a union shop and union conditions. Act Quickly! Special Offer to Da MAY DAYS—Anthology of Revol FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY ily Worker Readers ON. A LIMITED QUANTITY OF THE FOLLOWING BOOKS: lutionary Poetry Building Drive, WHY EVERY WORKER SHOULD JOIN THE sg ous worker. Presented in s | Greet the Workers of the Soviet Union! A special printing in the Russian language of the Sixth Anni- versary Fdition of the Daily Worker will be sent to the Soviet Union for distribution in the shops and factories. Strengthen the bond of solidarity with the workers of the Soviet Union by sending them a message which reads: “We shall help defend the Soviet Union against the attack of the imperialists! TORIES WENT “CLEAN PRESS!”| Zaritsky’s company union, the ($3.00) reduced to $2.00 and in the lan of the workers of the We congratulate 7 3 . . $2. a it Bu you upon the wonderful success of your Five- | TONnON, Eng. (By peers eas Hat, Mo nga dn CITY OF BREAD by Alexander Neveroff ($2.80) reduced to 1.65 hops, mills and factories. Year Plan! We shall enter the mines, mills and tuctbchan in the sooner the press plays clean in poli-|ers, is carrying on no st (‘4 oe Cha, », Fy 4) Teal 2 ra . if ia rf ef | Se Ui teeiocr saa: ents Re phaatiag at oft Meet of |f| 1 SAW IT MYSELF by Henri Barbusse.. ($2.50) reduced to 1.65 F me Cents Per Copy United States, participate and give leadership to the workers? was the novel statement of E. A.! millinery workers. All Three for $5.00 Unusual discounts for orders in quantity struggles, recruit the Party; build the Daily Worker, so that S. 8 ‘der with CAS ° Viner at the annual conference of | the Junior Imperial League, an or- ganization devoted to fostering im- perialist sentiment—with the aid of she press—among the youth, i The left-wing workers are re- sponding enthusiastically to appeals of the Needle Trades Industrial Union for support, organizationally and financially. 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